WEIRD STORIES ABOUT DEATH

Betty Stobbs was a tough and fearless sixty-seven-year-old sheep farmer from Stanhope, England. Ordinarily, sheep are not animals that inspire much fear or that are known for being particularly bright.

Nicolas Atfield, a thirty-one-year-old dockworker from Devon, England, was unloading a massive catch from a sixty-foot boat called the Emma Jame when she returned to Salcombe Quay from her two-day crabbing expedition in December 2008. He somehow got caught in a cable

Peter O'Flinn and Derek Clarke, both from Donaghmede, Ireland, were good buddies and coworkers employed at a Dublin shopfitters company. They were both well-liked and happy young men in their twenties who loved the occasional prank.

In 2004, a forty-six-year-old man from Washington state told his family that when he died, he would like to have his ashes scattered over a cemetery in Forrest Grove, Oregon, where many of their deceased relatives were buried.

Mary McClinton, a sixty-nine-year-old Seattle-area resident, visited the Virginia Mason Medical Center to take care of a small problem with her eyes. What ensued was one of the most horrific deaths in the history of hospital care.